gateway reviews - waterfall based or agile ready?
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Assurance of agile projects conference 27th November 2013TRANSCRIPT
Brian Wernham
Gateway reviews:
Waterfall biased or Agile ready?
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Why are YOU here today?
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What is
‘Agile’? ‘Agile’ only for
web
development? ‘Agile’ only for
tiny stuff? ‘Agile’ = loss of
control?
Gated assurance
processes for
agile projects?
What is
‘DSDM’?
‘Agile’ in
mission critical
projects?
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What is
‘Scrum’?
This talk:
What are Gateway reviews?
What is ‘Agile’?
Can a Gated approach be used to assure
‘Agile’ projects?
… and what about complex change
programmes?
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Waterfall projects drive a waterfall
assurance approach…
Traditional
Project
Design
Build
Test
Deploy
White box
Assurance
‘P’ Level
Process
Assurance
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What is the waterfall approach?
Why does it often cause
problems on innovation projects?
What are Gateway Reviews?
Do Gateway reviews reinforce weaknesses
in the waterfall model?
Waterfall - Let’s dig deeper…
The “Big Design Up Front”
mind-set
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I had better ask for all
possible features…
At last – a chance to get what I
want!
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The Big Design Up Front is born…
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The result of Big Design Up
Front…
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As difficult as trying to swim up a
waterfall…
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Gateway reviews – as interpreted
for waterfall projects
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Acronyms:
- Strategic Outline Case (SOC)
- Outline Business Case (OBC)
- Full Business Case (FBC)
Source: Welsh Government 2012
What does an ‘Agile’ project look
like:
- a governance perspective
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Innovation
project
P/type
P/type
P/type
P/type
Examples of Agile Methods
- A project level method: ‘DSDM’
15 Source: DSDM Consortium (DSDM = Driving Strategy, Delivering More)
Examples of Agile Methods
- A team level method: ‘Scrum’
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Source: Mike Cohn
‘Agile’ projects invert the ‘iron-
triangle’:
17 Source: DSDM Consortium
Don’t be slaves to process!
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Be outcome focussed:
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‘O’ for Outcome Assurance…
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‘P’ Level
Process
Assurance
Taking an appropriate assurance
approach…
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Traditional
Project
Innovation
project Hybrid
Programme
Design
Build
Test
Deploy
P/type
P/type
P/type
P/type
White box
Assurance
Hybrid
Assurance
Black box
Assurance
Innovation
Project
Innovation
Project
Traditional
Project
Traditional
Project
Hybrid Gate Assurance?
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Project
Programme Gateway Reviews
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Annual ‘O’ Gates
Gates 1-5 repeated
for each project
Gate 0 repeated
annually
‘P’ level
Process
Assurance
‘O’ Level
Outcome
Assurance
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lose ‘O
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Source: Welsh Government 2012 – amended to correctly show iterative Gates O
Managing and assuring agile/waterfall hybrid
change programmes – a recent article…
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Thanks for listening!
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